Niklas Laxström wrote: > This suggestion seems to come up from time to time. I feel it is > unrealistic. First of all we can't remove them from svn, since they > have to be there. We could remove them from the tarballs, but please, > last time I checked the tarball was hardly over 12 megs. Even with > very slow modem it should take an hour at most to download that. Using > better compression algorithm would likely shrink it as much as > removing few languages. The minor languages don't even take as much > space as the major languages, which usually have more complete > localisation. > > Drawing the line is not easy and would likely cause continuous, > unnecessary contention, put some languages in a privileged position > and hurt MediaWiki's top notch i18n and l10n support. Each language is > special, but you don't see that if you just look at the number of > speakers. Do we really want hurt one of our greatest advantages? > > Besides, it feels silly to talk about this, while we simultaneously > talk about including some of the most common extensions in the name of > providing feature complete MediaWiki straight from the box--which is a > goal I agree with. > > -Niklas
A few days ago the issue came up where I was talking with an end user who was complaining about MediaWiki being too large (in the server, not in the tarball) compared to other apps like wordpress. I think there's a use case for providing a mediawiki download where the end user can check which languages they want and provide a custom download. And/or document how to strip some languages from mediawiki. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
